September’s quote of the month comes courtesy of Apple’s spiritual guru -Steve Jobs. Jobs has had many great charismatic and intelligent quotes on many topics throughout his career in the tech. industry. He was a designer and an inventor but will primarily be known as co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was famously fired from Apple in the 1980s but would return in the 90s and help the company avoid declaring bankruptcy. Over the next several years , Jobs would help to design such innovative Apple products like the iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone and the iPad. In 2011, Apple would become the world’s most valuable publicly-traded company on the stock market.

In addition, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division for the price of $10 million. The company would go on to create such entertaining and award-winning films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and Up. Jobs developed a love for electronics at an early age by helping his step-father fix radios and televisions in their garage. Jobs would go on to work for Atari and helped to develop the video game ‘Breakout’. Jobs left the company and worked with fellow inventor Steve Wozniak and helped to form ‘Apple’ which was given the name based on Jobs’ admiration for a summer job picking apples. The duo would go on to help build one of the world’s first personal computers. Many people who knew Jobs believed him to be a perfectionist and an egomaniac. Jobs didn’t care much for wealth and actually only paid himself 1$ a year in salary as Chairman of Apple Inc. Here is a great quote from Jobs on his belief in personal wealth…

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” [The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]” – Steve Jobs

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